Tài liệu CONDITIONALS docx

CONDITIONALS
Type If - clause Main clause
0. Habit-Truth
(talking about a
general truth)
Present
V/Vs,es
Present
V/Vs,es
1. Open-
condition( possib
ility)
Present
V/Vs,es
Future
Will + V
2. Present unreal
conditional
Past : were
V2/Ved
Conditional 1:
Would/could + V
3. Past unreal
conditional
Past Perfect:
Had+ V3/Ved
Conditional 2:
Would /could +
have + V3+ed

0
If you break the law, you are an
offender.
If you lose weight during the time of
medical therapy, you regain after
ward
True for everyone
experience
1
If the weather is beautiful, I’ll go to
the beach.
possible
2
If I had money I would lend you.
If she were you, she wouldn’t
behave like that
I don’t have
money.
She isn’t you.
3 If I had known you came here
yesterday, I would have picked you
up.
I didn’t know you
came.


Modals: Ability, Possibility and
Speculation


1. Expressing Ability (Can-Could-Be able to)

can – could: an ability

Ex: Can you swim? / I can use his car when he’s
on vacation.

Be able to: describe a special achievement or a
specific situation

Ex: The fire spread so quickly but luckily people
were able to escape.

At first he couldn’t jump over the table, after a
second trial, he was able to jump over it.



2. Expressing Permission (May-can-could-Do
you mind…?)

May I park in your driveway?

Can / could I use your computer a little bit?

Do you mind if I use your pen?

3. Expressing Request


Can you help me?

Could you please go this way?


4. Expressing possibility (May-might-
could)

Present and future possibility

We use may, might, and could to Talk about
present and future

Where’s Tom? “He could be in the living room.”

We aren’t sure what we are going to do tomorrow.
We might go to the beach.

Possibility in the past

May/might/could + have + p.p

“ I can’t not find my wallet anywhere.”

“You may have left it at home.”